'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1863 to December 1864. (Edited by the Secretary.) Volume XVII.' [‎170] (341/524)

170 REMARKS ON A RECENT JOURNEY
No. 53 is a specimen of the cliff on the West side, and springing
from this in a considerable stream from a hole in the rock is clear
water of a temperature of 57^° in August. No. 54 is from the bed of
this stream as it issues from the rock.
From £)esht*i-Arjen to Shirauz the rock» are of the gypsiferous
series. For the first six miles they are ragged and steep, and covered
with oak and hawthorn, but for the rest of the way they are low, round
ed and only slightly covered with grass and brushwood. The soil being
formed from the underlying rocks, is streaked blue and red, from the
sandstone being in many places impregnated with iron. The strata of
gypsum have worn away more than the sandstone, so that there are
cross ridges and hollows, for the strata are generally nearly vertical.
Desht-i-Arjen-Shirauz Nos. 55, 56, and 57, are from the side of a
ravine where the hills are ragged. Nos. 58, 59, 60, 61, and 62 are
from some of the strata where the hills are low and rounded. No. 63
is from the bed of the river Karaghatch passing through that part of
the country.
The plain of Shirauz is bounded on the North-west by a high hill
called Koe-Burf, formed of innumerable strata of sandstone and gypsum
in alternate layers. The lower strata on the south side dip NE. at
an angle of 25°, but up a little the strata are horizontal, and on the
summit of the mountain is a large plain. Shirauz No. 64 is a speci
men from a gypsum stratum. No. 65 has the remains of Algoe. No.
66 above is a mass of nummulites, and No. 65 above that is full of
fuci and crystals of. ..
The plain of Shirauz is hounded on the East by a range of limestone
which is destitute of vegetation, and has the quaquaversal dip univer
sal in those ranges. The strata vary in thickness from four to ten feet.
They are numbered from above down Shirauz Nos. 68, 69, 70, 71,
and 72. Shirauz No. 68 a are fragments of fossils from this range.
To the East of this, and immediately behind it, is another limestone
range, of which Shirauz No. 73 is a specimen. At the end of this a
ravine runs, in which, under ten feet of earth, is a horizontal stratum of
quartz gravel (No. 74) four feet thick, lying on clay (No. 75).
From this range to Zergoon the rocks on the North of the road are
gypsiferous, and away to the South all limestone. The gypsiferous
rocks are composed of red and grey sandstone and gypsum (Shirauz
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